Hi H-P, On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 10:31:33PM +0100, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
Am Mittwoch, 15. Februar 2006 12:29 schrieb Carl-Daniel Hailfinger:
This only affects a *small* subset of ISDN and DSL cards and exactly one wireless chipset (atheros). I fully expect that the GPL driver
The only wireless chipset/pci card, which handles wpa encryption - cool.
My prism2 works with WPA, as did ipw2x00 when I last tested. [...]
Personally, I think this is entirely acceptable since it reduces support load on SUSE kernel developers (less tainted oopses) and respects the express will of the kernel developing community.
Sure, disappointing customers definitely reduces the support load in every company. Such an attitude will actively damage the reputation of SUSE and you know - one disappointed customer has much more weight (and will spread the word louder) than ten satisfied ones.
I don't think Carl-Daniel wanted to make the point that SUSE kernel developers want to work less. But they can lose a lot of time with trying to work on issues that can not be resolved due to the presence of closed kernel modules. No theory, sad fact of life. I think their time is better invested if they work on improving the open-source drivers and get more of them into Linux and the distribution. Long-term it means better hardware support, not worse. [...]
How about "New driver architecture - Novells disaster seekers strike back"
Cynicism is always nice :-) Best, -- Kurt Garloff, Head Architect, Director SUSE Labs (act.), Novell Inc.